The Tesco new quality initiative, nature's choice / Tesco Stores Ltd.

Stop illegal poisoning of our wildlife : a joint campaign by government and other concerned organisations / prepared by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food for the agriculture departments, with the Departmentof the Environment and the Nature Conservancy Council, as part of the Campaign against the illegal poisoning of wildlife.

Stop illegal poisoning of our wildlife : Red kite, Milvus, milvus / Dept. of the Environment ; photo: C.H. Gomersall.

Stop illegal poisoning of our wildlife : yellow labrador / Dept. of the Environment ; photos: Derek Whitehouse.

Nature's choice produce / Tesco.

Let's halt illegal poisoning now : save our wildlife / Dept. of the Environment.

Stop illegal poisoning of our wildlife : Golden eagle, aquila chrysaetos /  Dept. of the Environment ; photo: Nature Photographers Ltd.

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The pest war / W.W. Fletcher.

A stirring instructional film which starts with footage of herds of buffalo roaming free (footage credited courtesy of the Trexler-Lehigh County Game Preserve) to contrast with modern farming. Buffalo are believed to select the best pasture which is described by the narrator - but modern farming can't leave anything to chance; a young man who is starting livestock farming deploys modern farming methods by using enriched feed. Hormones and antibiotics (Aureomycin) are added to aid the growth of modern cattle (a selection of farming journals are spread out with all the different benefits of supplements). Each farmer is described as being a scientist and an 'interest in the critters' is also deemed important. An animation of a pig from good stock is shown which indicates the potential profit (it is briefly a piggy bank). Aureomycin; 'a golden wonder drug' was discovered by Lederle when they were researching vitamin B12; it provides a growth gain (scientists in the laboratory carry out their tests as the narrator extolls the virtues of the drug). Numerous animals are shown to be larger after being given enriched feed; chickens, calves, dogs, rabbits and mink. Experimental pigs are also larger than their litter mates. 'Almost overnight', Lederle laboratories went into production diverting capacity from human Aureomycin production to that suitable to largescale livestock feed. All the benefits are described and illustrated; the weight gain is greater for the given feed (and therefore reach maturation quicker). There is a minor caveat that the antibiotic is not a catch all, although there are advantages in treating all the animals prophylactically by adding preventative feeding by Megasul (Nitrophenide). Dead chickens are processed; a housewife selects her pre-wrapped chicken in a supermarket. It is a 'golden age' of animal livestock feeding.

1 videocassette (20:23 min.) (DIGIBETA) : silent, black and white 1 DVD (20:23 min.) : sound, colour ; 12 cm

Formula for profit.

Technical report series (World Health Organization)

Technical report series, World Health Organization

Safe use of pesticides : twentieth report of the WHO Expert Committee on Insecticides.

War on parasites; sheep husbandry; some historical images to illustrate history of development of pest control, various parasites, sheep dipping with an amusing aside of a policeman with a stop watch. Ends suddenly.

1 film reel (10 mins.) : sound, colour, 16 mm

Design for dipping.

A film made for farmers and stock owners which compares animal husbandry in Argentina and South Africa, partly informative and partly for marketing purposes as Coopers distributed veterinary products and medicines. The first scenes involve sheep dipping at the Coopers farm in Buckinghamshire, England. Sheep are rounded up. Sheep parasites include the sheep ked, the sheep louse, sheep scab (all shown magnified). The sheep are dipped in a bath; two lambs together. At an Argentine estancia, a large flock of sheep is dipped using a long trough. A flock of Angora goats are featured from South Africa; a circular stone flagged bath is used. Next Persian sheep are dipped. Ends abruptly.

Sheep and Cattle Facts for Farmers

1 encoded moving image (12:13 mins.) : sound, black and white.

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The pest war / W.W. Fletcher.

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Safe use of pesticides : twentieth report of the WHO Expert Committee on Insecticides.

Design for dipping.

Sheep and cattle facts for farmers.

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Pesticides

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The pest war / W.W. Fletcher.

Formula for profit.

Safe use of pesticides : twentieth report of the WHO Expert Committee on Insecticides.

Design for dipping.

Sheep and cattle facts for farmers.

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